Portrait of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the 16th president of the United States. In 1863, during the Civil War, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which abolished slavery in the U.S. Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 as he attended a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.

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